| 2024 | Qian Yang | 2024 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Yuqiang Ding | 2024 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Yuqiang Ding | JSID’s Outstanding Student Paper of the Year Award | 
|  | Zhenyi Luo | First Place of SPIE Photonics West AR/VR/MR Optical Design Challenge | 
|  | Zhenyi Luo | ILCS-FRL Diamond award | 
| 2023 | Yizhou Qian | SID Metro Detroit Academic Award | 
|  | Enlin Hsiang | 2023 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Zhenyi Luo | 2023 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Yizhou Qian | 2023 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Yuqiang Ding | 2023 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Yannanqi Li | 2023 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Qian Yang | SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship | 
|  | Yannanqi Li | Second Place of SPIE Photonics West AR/VR/MR Optical Design Challenge | 
| 2022 | Kun Yin | JSID’s Outstanding Student Paper of the Year Award | 
|  | Junyu Zou | 2022 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Kun Yin | 2022 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Qian Yang | 2022 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Enlin Hsiang | SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship | 
|  | Yannanqi Li | ILCS-FRL Gold Award | 
| 2021 | Jianghao Xiong | JSID Best Paper Award | 
|  | Enlin Hsiang | 2021 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Zhiyong Yang | 2021 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Jianghao Xiong | 2021 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Ziqian He | 2021 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Kun Yin | 2021 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Jianghao Xiong | ILCS-FRL Diamond award | 
|  | Kun Yin | ILCS-FRL Platinum award | 
| 2020 | Ziqian He | IEEE Orlando Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship | 
|  | Junyu Zou | 2020 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Kun Yin | 2020 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Jianghao Xiong | 2020 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Ziqian He | 2020 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Tao Zhan | First Place of SPIE Photonics West AR/VR/MR Optical Design Challenge | 
|  | Tao Zhan | IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Scholarship | 
|  | Tao Zhan | Facebook Reality Labs Liquid Crystal research awards (Platinum) | 
|  | Tao Zhan | SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship | 
|  | Tao Zhan | JSID Distinguished Student Paper of the year | 
|  | Tao Zhan | IEEE Orlando Outstanding Graduate Student Award & Scholarship | 
| 2019 | Fangwang Gou | 2019 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship | 
|  | Fangwang Gou | 2019 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Kun Yin | 2019 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Prof. Yi-Pai Huang | SID Fellow Award | 
|  | Yun-Han Lee, Guanjun Tan | JSID’s Outstanding Student Paper of the Year Award | 
|  | Guanjun Tan | First Place of SPIE Photonics West AR/VR/MR Optical Design Challenge | 
|  | Guanjun Tan | UCF Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship | 
|  | Tao Zhan | 2019 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Tao Zhan | Best Paper Award in International Display Workshop | 
| 2018 | Guanjun Tan, Juan He | IEEE Orlando Chapter Graduate Student Scholarship Award | 
|  | Yuge Huang | SID Metro Detroit Academic Award | 
|  | Haiwei Chen | 2018 ILCS Glenn Brown Prize | 
|  | Hao Chen, Juan He | JSID’s Outstanding Student Paper of the Year Award | 
|  | Guanjun Tan | 2018 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship | 
|  | Juan He | 2018 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship | 
|  | Guanjun Tan | 2018 SLCP Best Paper Award | 
|  | Guanjun Tan | 2018 ICDT Best Student Paper Award | 
|  | Prof. Qionghua Wang | SID Fellow Award | 
|  | Juan He | 2018 CREOL Industrial Affiliates Program Best Poster Award | 
|  | Juan He | 2018 DOE Solid State Lighting R&D Workshop Best Student Poster Award | 
| 2017 | Haiwei Chen | 2017 IEEE graduate student fellowship award | 
|  | Haiwei Chen | 2017 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship | 
|  | Prof. Yi-Pai Huang | 2017 SID Peter Brody Prize | 
|  | Ruidong Zhu | JSID’s Outstanding student paper of the year award | 
|  | Fenglin Peng | Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Oversea Students | 
| 2016 | Fenglin Peng | 2016 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship | 
|  | Ruidong Zhu | 2016 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship | 
|  | Prof. Seung Hee Lee | 2016 SID Jan Rajchman Prize | 
|  | Prof. Yanqing Lu | 2016 OSA Fellow Award | 
|  | Zhibing Ge | 2016 SID Display of the Year Award | 
|  | Vicky Wen | 2016 SID Display Application of the Year Award | 
|  | Fenglin Peng | 2016 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Ruidong Zhu | 2016 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Haiwei Chen | 2016 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Juan He | 2016 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Daming Xu | Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Oversea Students | 
|  | Daming Xu | UCF Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship | 
| 2015 | Daming Xu | 2015 IEEE Orlando Chapter Graduate Student Award | 
|  | Daming Xu | SPIE D. J. Lovell Scholarship; the largest and most prestigious society’s scholarship | 
|  | Yating Gao | 2015 SID distinguished poster paper award | 
|  | Haiwei Chen | 2015 SID distinguished student paper award | 
|  | Zhenyue Luo | 2015 SID distinguished student paper award | 
|  | Fenglin Peng | SPIE Newport Travel Grants | 
|  | Daming Xu | SPIE Newport Travel Grants | 
| 2014 | Sihui He | 2014 IEEE Orlando Chapter Graduate Student Scholarship | 
|  | Zhenyue Luo | 2014 IEEE Orlando Chapter Graduate Student Scholarship | 
|  | Prof. Shin-Tson Wu | First six Inductees of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame | 
|  | Sihui He | 2014 SPIE Educational Scholarship | 
|  | Zhenyue Luo | 2014 SPIE Educational Scholarship | 
|  | Zhenyue Luo | UCF Graduate Research Excellence Fellowship | 
|  | Dr. Linghui Rao | ILCS (Int’l Liquid Crystal Society) Glenn Brown Prize | 
|  | Yuan Chen | 2014 SID distinguished paper awards | 
|  | Daming Xu | 2014 SID distinguished paper awards | 
|  | Zhenyue Luo | 2014 SID distinguished paper awards | 
|  | Prof. Shin-Tson Wu | 2014 OSA Esther Hoffman Beller Medal | 
|  | Yuan Chen | Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Oversea Students | 
| 2013 | Dr. Martin Schadt | National Academy of Inventors (NAI) | 
|  | Yifan Liu | 2013 IEEE Orlando Chapter Graduate Student Award | 
|  | Yuan Chen | 2013 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship Award | 
|  | Yuan Chen | UCF Graduate Research Excellence Fellowship | 
|  | Yuan Chen | 2013 SPIE Educational Scholarship | 
|  | Dr. Martin Schadt | Honorary Professorship by Nanjing University | 
|  | Prof. Shin-Tson Wu | Honorary Professorship by Nanjing University | 
|  | Yuan Chen | 2013 SID distinguished student paper award | 
|  | Daming Xu | 2013 SID distinguished student paper award | 
|  | Jie Sun | 2013 SID distinguished poster paper awards | 
|  | Jin Yan | Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Oversea Students | 
| 2012 | Prof. Shin-Tson Wu | National Academy of Inventors: Charter Fellow | 
|  | HY Kim, SH Lee, SL Lee | 2012 SID Special Recognition Award | 
|  | Jie Sun | 2012 IEEE Orlando Chapter Graduate Student Award and Scholarship | 
|  | Prof. Shin-Tson Wu | 2012 OSA Outstanding Reviewer Award | 
|  | Jin Yan | 2012 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship Award | 
|  | Hui-Chuan Cheng | 2012 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Jin Yan | 2012 SPIE Educational Scholarship | 
| 2011 | Yan Li | 2011 IEEE Orlando Chapter Scholarship | 
|  | Linghui Rao | 2011 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship | 
|  | Tracy Su Xu | 2011 SPIE Educational Scholarship | 
|  | Prof. Shin-Tson Wu | 2011 SID Slottow-Owaki Prize | 
|  | Prof. Takahiro Ishinabe | 2011 SID Special Recognition Award | 
|  | Yan Li | 2011 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Hui-Chuan Cheng | 2011 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
| 2010 | Linghui Rao | 2010 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award | 
|  | Linghui Rao | 2010 SPIE Educational Scholarship | 
|  | Prof. Shin-Tson Wu | 2010 OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award / Robert M� Burley Prize | 
| 2009 | Meizi Jiao | 2009 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship | 
|  | Dr. Ying Zhou | 2009 Otto Lehmann Award | 
|  | Yan Li | 2009 SPIE Educational Scholarship | 
| 2008 | Yan Li and Meizi Jiao | 2008 JSID Best Student Paper Award | 
|  | Dr. Zhibing Ge | 2008 Otto Lehmann Award | 
|  | Dr. Yi-Hsin Lin | 2008 ILCS Glenn Brown Prize | 
|  | Prof. Shin-Tson Wu | 2008 SPIE G. G. Stokes Award | 
|  | Prof. Shin-Tson Wu | 2008 SID Jan Rajchman Award | 
|  | Prof. Seung Hee Lee | SID Fellow | 
| 2007 | Ying Zhou | 2007 SPIE Educational Awards | 
|  | Xiangyi Nie | 2007 SPIE Educational Awards | 
|  | Zhibing Ge | 2007 SPIE Educational Awards | 
|  | Ying Zhou | 2007 OSA New Focus/Bookham Award | 
|  | Ying Zhou | 2007 CREOL Student of The Year Award | 
|  | Zhibing Ge | 2006 Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Oversea Students | 
|  | Zhibing Ge | Who’s Who Among UCF Students Award | 
|  | Prof. Yanqing Lu | 2006 First Class China Awards for Science & Technology | 
| 2006 | Claire Fan | 2006 Optical Physics Company Michelson Technology Award | 
|  | Prof. Kit Choi | 2006 IDW Outstanding Poster Paper Award | 
|  | Yung-Hsun Wu | 2006 IEEE (Orlando Section) Outstanding Graduate Student Award | 
|  | Zhibing Ge | 2006 IEEE Graduate Student Fellowship Award | 
|  | Amy Jang | 2006 REU Students Best Poster Paper Award | 
|  | Yi-Hsin Lin | OSA New Focus/Bookham Graduate Student Award | 
|  | Yi-Hsin Lin | Who’s Who Among UCF Students Award | 
| 2005 | Bounds Huang | Acer Dragon Award in Taiwan | 
|  | Yi-Hsin Lin | SPIE Educational Scholarship in optical science and engineering | 
|  | Yi-Hsin Lin | 2005 Newport Research Excellence Awards | 
|  | Vicky Wen | 2005 Newport Research Excellence Awards | 
| 2004 | Claire Fan | SPIE Educational Scholarship in optical science and engineering | 
|  | Claire Fan | IEEE Orlando Section Outstanding Graduate Student Award |